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CHINESE CERAMICS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. RICHARD AND RUTH DICKES

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A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘LOTUS’ DISH

YUAN DYNASTY, MID-14TH CENTURY
The dish is carved in the center with a lotus fower, surrounded by leafy scroll and cross-hatched lines
below the everted, grooved rim, and is covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze except for an unglazed
circle on the base revealing the body burnt orange in the fring.
14¡ in. (36.5 cm.), box
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE

Marion Hammer, according to label.
The Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon Collection.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 22 March 2009.
Dr. Richard and Ruth Dickes Collection.

EXHIBITED

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, Spring 2009, no. 18.
Compare a similar dish carved with a lotus illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the
Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 263, no. 94, where the author notes that a similar
dish was excavated from the site of the 14th century Tughlaq Palace in Delhi.
元十四世紀中葉 龍泉青釉刻花大盤

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